UNDP Report Places Jamaica Among Western Hemisphere's Steadiest Democracies
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has identified Jamaica as one of the western hemisphere's most durable democratic states, the agency said in a report released on Monday.
The findings draw on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) index, which has recorded scores for Jamaica and Barbados between 0.75 and 0.82 since the 1990s. Those readings place both countries at the forefront of the Caribbean and ahead of the Latin American and wider regional averages.
Jamaica and Barbados head the first of three clusters the report uses to group nations with sustained and standout democratic performance over time.
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